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Thought For the Day: A Cynical, Mercenary, Demagogic Press Will Produce In Time A People As Base As Itself. The Power To Mould the Future of the Republic Will Be In the Hands of the Journalists of Future Generations
“Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: The Penalty In Failing To Participate In Politics Is Governance By Inferiors
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” – Plato
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Utopia – Thomas More
Utopia‘s proper title is De Optimo rei publicae deque nova insula Utopia. The literal translation of the title is “Of a republic’s best state and of the new island Utopia”. Its original title was even longer. It is interesting to … Continue reading
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 